Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas related to the applied computing. Topics will include, but not be limited to, the following areas:

- Agent Systems and Applications

- Bioinformatics

- Data Mining

- Database Systems

- Distributed and Parallel Systems

- Embedded Systems

- Fault Tolerance and Reliability

- Grid Computing

- Intelligent Systems

- Mobile Networking

- Multimedia

- Networking

- Object Orientation

- Operating Systems

- Security and Trusted Computing

- Sensor Networks

- Smartphone Platform and Applications

- Software Engineering

- Technologies for E-Learning

- WWW Applications and Technologies

- Visualization

- XML and other Extensible Languages

*** Papers ***

All papers will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. All accepted papers will be published as an ACM proceeding and will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several International Journals as a special section for the RACS 2013.

*** Special Workshop/Track Proposal ***

In conjunction with the RACS 2013, a number of special workshops and tracks will be organized. Workshop/track proposals

which should include "Title of the workshop/track", "Purpose of the workshop/track", "Short bios of organizers",

"A tentative list of TPC", and "A tentative website address" are to be sent to the program chair () by March 1, 2013.

*** Important Dates ***

- May 31, 2013 Paper Submission

- July 31, 2013 Author Notification

- Aug. 15, 2013 Camera-Ready Copy

*** Paper Submission ***

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. The submission process is described on the Submission Page: .

*** Organizing Committee ***

- Honorable Conference Chair

Ching Y. Suen, Concordia University, Canada

- Conference Co-Chair

Amir Aghdam, Concordia University, Canada

Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

- Program Co-Chairs

Jiman Hong, Soongsil University, Korea

Esmaeil Nadimi, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

- Program Vice-Chairs

Feifei Gao, Tsinghua University, China

Sung-Ryul Kim, Konkuk University, Korea

Shubhamoy Dey, Indian Institute of Management Indore, India

Chi-Sheng Daniel Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Wei Wang, South Dakota State University, USA

- International Advisory Chairs

Richard Chbeir, Pau University, France

Chih-Cheng Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA

Shi Jin, Southeast University, China

Lei Li, Hosei University, Japan

- Publication Chair

John Kim, Utica College, USA

- Local Arrangement Chair

Anjali Awasthi Concordia University, Canada

- Treasurer/Web Master

Chris Sung, Indiana University Southeast, USA

*** Steering Committee ***

Sung Y. Shin, South Dakota State University, USA

Yookun Cho, Seoul National University, Korea

Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University, USA

Rex E. Gantenbein, University of Wyoming, USA

Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

*** Technical Program Committee (Tentative) ***

- Rafael Accorsi, University of Freiburg, Germany

- Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA

- Mahdi Alavi, University of Windsor, Canada

- Florina Almenarez, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

- Mark Bartlett, University of York, UK

- Iain Bate, University of York, UK

- Moris Behnam, Mälardalen University, Sweden

- Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany

- Achim D. Brucker, SAP Research, Germany

- Yurify Brun, University of Washington, USA

- Carlos Tavares Calafate, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

- Celeste Campo, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

- Juan-Carlos Cano, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

- Li-Pin Chang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

- Yuan-Hao Chang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

- Dunren Che, Southern Illinois University, USA

- Yashu Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan